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Windows only: Freeware system tray application Process Lasso monitors your running processes for CPU hogs and reins them in before they take over and freeze up your computer. Like previously mentioned Process Tamer, Process Lasso does this by lowering the priority of those processes on a runaway train to freeze-ville. Unlike Tamer, Process Lasso also offers a tonne of user customisation, so you can set default priorities by process or other rules for how Process Lasso deals with CPU hogs, like "Make firefox.exe run only on CPU #1 each time its launched."
Bind full-sized booklets with the Long Reach stapler, a heavy duty stapler which takes standard staples but can stretch across 12 inches. A reader at the Cool Tools web site says: 
Web site Pediaphon turns any Wikipedia article into an MP3. The site plugs the article into a text-to-speech synthesis app, and while the synthesis isn't the best you've ever heard (what is this 
Serious enough about your New Year's resolutions to put money on them? To appoint a referee and cheering section to check in on your progress? You can do just that at StickK, a goal monitoring web site where you commit to achieving something and literally pay if you don't make progress. Set up a goal at StickK, like losing 20 pounds in the next four months, and then decide to put $20 a week towards that goal. If you don't make it? Your total cash goes to a charity of your choice. You can also appoint a friend or relative to be a referee, who checks up on your progress. Looks like a neat way to turn peer and financial pressure on yourself to achieve your goals. 
If you're wondering where we find many of the purty images that accompany Lifehacker posts, it's over at Everystockphoto, a treasure trove of stock and Creative Commons-licensed images that you can reuse on your blog, presentation or brochure. Yes, we've already 
Weblog Inspect My Gadget covers three different methods for shutting down your computer remotely. Why might you want to do this?
When your Excel formula results turn out to be that ugly divide by zero error #DIV/0!, customise the way they are displayed using the IF function. The Producitivity Portfolio blog explains how to test to see if your divisor is 0, and if so, display a blank value using something like =IF(D2=0,'',C2/D2). If you're an Excel nerd who loves in-cell logical tests as much as I do, you'll also like 
Our brothers-in-tech at Gizmodo were stoked to rent movies from iTunes but less excited about the 24-hour expiration clock iTunes places on the rentals. After a bit of time in the think tank, they discovered you can trick iTunes into extending a movie's rental period for years with a little Marty McFly finesse. In essence the method is very simple: Just set your system clock ahead a year or two before you download a rental, download it, start playing the video in order to start the expiration clock, and then set your system clock back to the present. 
